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Colourful installation celebrating the joy of play

Culture
Listening to Joy is a new interactive playscape designed by Yinka Ilori for families of all ages. Supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery, it is...

New music and arts festival Otherlands is revealed

Culture | Music
A new boutique three-day camping festival is to take place in Scotland this summer. The founders of FLY, one of Scotland’s largest music events, have...
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An exhibition to mark the untold Scottish stories

Culture | Scotland
Historic Environment Scotland has today announced a programme of activity to celebrate the Year of Stories. This includes Unforgettable, an exhibition featuring the untold stories...

Two Russian operas are coming in a double bill

Culture | Music
Scottish Opera is set to perform a double bill of short, striking Russian operas: the Scottish premiere of Sergei Rachmaninov’s The Miserly Knight and the...
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The Bookshop Band’s soundtrack for Netflix and Aardman film

Culture
A Scots band went global when their music featured in an Aardman and Netflix musical special. Wigtown duo, The Bookshop Band, were delighting children and...
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Two new faces at Scottish Land and Estates

Outdoors | Scotland
Scottish Land and Estates has welcomed two new members of staff to augment its headquarters team. Sarah Madden has joined SLE as a policy adviser...
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WHISKY

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL DRINK

Since its humble beginnings nearly ten years ago, the distillery has generated £50,000 for the local community.

GlenWyvis: World’s first fully community owned distillery offers whisky lovers chance to buy shares

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
In 2015, former Army Air Corps helicopter pilot John McKenzie decided to bring whisky back to Dingwall after a 90 year absence. His idea was...
HRH Prince Charles with Ian Urquhart Signing First Cask at Benromach.

Former Gordon & MacPhail chief Ian Urquhart dies following an illness

Cask and Still | Whisky
Scotch whisky legend Ian Urquhart has died aged 76. The Moray based businessman died peacefully on 15 March after an illness, with his family by...
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Charles Maclean: Whisky writer launches new charity dram with his sons

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
Scotland's leading whisky writer Charles Maclean has launched a new dram - and every bottle sold will give at least one person clean water for...
Chef Tom Kitchin. Credit Marc Miller

Me and My Dram, Tom Kitchin: ‘You have to be in the right moment to enjoy whisky, that’s the magic of it’

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
Following a rocky start, celebrity chef Tom Kitchin has fostered an enduring love for whisky, finds Morag Bootland. He sits down with us for the latest...
The first legal dram from the Outer Hebridean Isle of Harris, The Hearach offers an elegant single malt, with fruit and floral notes and a long, slightly smoky, finish.

Isle of Harris: Distillery releases four new batches of the long awaited Hearach whisky

Cask and Still | Whisky
Last year the first batches of the long awaited Isle of Harris whisky sold out in less than five hours – after more than 25,000...
Rosebank Distillery.

Rosebank Distillery: ‘King of the Lowlands’ ready to re-open with 100-year-old mill still used in whisky production

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
It was closed three decades ago in 1993, but now the ‘King of the Lowlands’, Rosebank Distillery is to reopen.  The historic distillery has been...
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